aurenflani:

That's just one ministry and in case you don't know, it's call the Aviation ministry.

CFCfan:

Okay, thanks. The N13bn figure will also be used to construct a parking structure, apron.

Sincere 9gerian:
It appears the N13billion Enugu International Airport terminal will be financed from the regular budget. Unlike the others, work on it has been flagged off.

babyosisi:

I practically spent most of my long vacations in Kano and kaduna and Jos so I know the area well
The population means nothing
How many can get on a plane?
There are about 2 million almajiris in Kano alone
Go around Kano you see them sprawled under every mango tree around a Mallam and by evening they are at every major road junction with bowls in hand
So who exactly is hopping on these planes
The number is negligible
Do you know airfrance and some other airline used to fly from the USA to Kano sometime ago
Go and find out why they stopped
The answer is not Boko haram btw


You are talking about a state whose priority in 2013 is organizing mass weddings for widows and jobless men
Abeg
Why won't they fly their folks abroad?
No be dem dey get the lion share of our oil wealth.

babyosisi:

I practically spent most of my long vacations in Kano and kaduna and Jos so I know the area well
The population means nothing
How many can get on a plane?
There are about 2 million almajiris in Kano alone
Go around Kano you see them sprawled under every mango tree around a Mallam and by evening they are at every major road junction with bowls in hand
So who exactly is hopping on these planes
The number is negligible
Do you know airfrance and some other airline used to fly from the USA to Kano sometime ago
Go and find out why they stopped
The answer is not Boko haram btw


You are talking about a state whose priority in 2013 is organizing mass weddings for widows and jobless men
Abeg
Why won't they fly their folks abroad?
No be dem dey get the lion share of our oil wealth.

~Bluetooth:


They are spending billions renovating buildings when there over 10 million children out of school,several youths without employment or stable source of livelihood,extreme poverty,insecurity everywhere caused by societal dysfunction which metmorphosed into kidnapping,armed robbery among others.

Nigeria problems isn't about renovating airport but rehabilitating the larger masses who are the real owner of government but left out to participate in the workings of government.

This is nothing but a waste of fund and misplaced priority !

AnanseK:

Gombe. And it is working.

olawalemanog:
You have just said exactly what your problem is and i do not need a soothsayer to know where you are from. Anyway, i will help you tell the governor not to organise wedding for widows again so that Kano can surpass your state in provision of prostitutes for. not only the 36 states in Nigeria, but also for major European cities. Stupid, senseless hater!

solomon111: I don't think the FG wants to build more airports,that's why i said imo should build theirs.
Akwaibom and delta states built theirs themselves.

Acidosis:

Have you ever been to Kano?

Are you aware Kano is the second largest state in terms of commercial activity within Nigeria and the second most populous state in the country ? (check wiki)

Do you know Kano & Lagos are competing in terms of population?

Are you aware people troop in to that city like pure water for trade, business and investment?

Are you aware we have a standard football pitch in Kano state where footballers all over the world troop in until recently (crisis and all) ?

Are you aware Kano state governor is sending his people in hundreds on a daily basis for scholarships right from that Kano airport to any country you can think of in the world?

Do you know foreign investments and investors are all over the city?

Hope you know people who troop in to Kano just to order cars are more than those going to Lagos and Cotonou put together? Everything in Kano is relatively cheap!

Hope you know Kano state is the "Centre of Commerce"

Are you aware there are over 70 Hotels in the city- Kano? (not state).

I don tire for my west, south people o...

My dear, don't limit yourself to nairaland cos if you do, you'll not know anything aside Fashola, and maybe Amaechi and ACN..

Even if you can't travel to places, spread your horizon!!

plaindealer:

Lagos state's IGR is N20 Billion and not N30 Billion.

N30 Billion is what they end up with after adding the N10 Billion monthly allocation.

How do you even make valid points with flawed and bogus facts.?

Lagos Assembly Approves 499.105bn as 2013 Budget

This Day for more.

Who compares Lagos with a state like Akwa ibom? The number of school kids in Lagos is probably same with the entire population of Akwa Ibom and yet even with less money than Akwa Ibom, Lagos state still managed to build new schools and invest more in education that akwa ibom where the governor is yet to build one single school.

taharqa2: The tin tire me no bi small. @Rossike, I beg leave dis people be. Apart from d fact that they are slightly intellectuali challengd, you shld hv known what they are trying to do ie their job description. Its pointless. Just say you 'agree' and pass...

Aderostock:

Eko Atlantic was only telling you that Awolowo had paid the price and sacrificed for us to know the importance of education to the people of southwest earlier before any ethnic group. so we dnt need any yeye free education at the tertiary level which can't be sustained with the current arrangement in Nigeria unless we go back to regional govt.

Lawmaker’s scholarship lifts 75 pupils

The lawmaker representing Lagos East in the Senate, Gbenga Ashafa, has charged parents to support their children’s education to the tertiary level. Ashafa made the charge in Epe last weekend during the presentation of scholarships to 75 indigent pupils in Ikosi-Ejirin Local Council Development Area (LCDA).

The pupils, drawn from various public schools, were selected by the Gbenga Ashafa Educational Enhancement Programme.

Congratulating the beneficiaries, the lawmaker told the pupils to make judicious use of the grants.

He urged the parents to see education as a potent tool for development and always support their wards’ quest for it. He added that the programme is aimed and sustaining pupils’ interest in education.

He said: “Today’s occasion serves as a pilot project for the indigent students in public schools throughout the Lagos East senatorial district. Support for education has always been an integral part of our programmes.

“Under this scheme, a lot of success has been recorded. In the last three months, over 10,000 copies of writing materials, mathematical sets and rain coats were distributed throughout schools in my senatorial district. This is not to mention the different categories of scholarships and various financial assistances, all to keep the interest of our children in education.”

The chairman of the Gbenga Ashafa Educational Enhancement Programme in the local government, Oba Ganiu Aderibigbe, Alayandelu of Odo Ayandelu, thanked the lawmaker for the gesture.

“We thank our amiable Senator Ashafa for this initiative. Without this scholarship, the implication would have been to have these children out of schools without completing their studies, which has the potential to constitute nuisance in our community,” he said.

The beneficiaries, who were indigenes and non-indigenes of Lagos State, were selected across communities in the LCDA. One of them, Abraham Mercy, a Primary 5 pupil of Anglican Primary School, Ajebo, said she almost stopped schooling when her parents could not afford to pay. She appreciated the senator’s gesture, saying: “Thank you sir, Senator Ashafa, for this scholarship; I will go back to complete primary school.”

At the programme were the LCDA chairman, Hon. Segun Adetoba, leader of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Epe division, Chief Lanre Rasaq, Commissioner II in Lagos State Civil Service, Mr Wasiu Odeyemi, traditional rulers from Ikorodu, Epe, Agbowa and Ikosi-Ejirin among others.

The Nation

anonimi:

Is it my MATHEMATICS that is "flawed and bogus" or your idol, Fashola's ARITHMETIC that is crooked



30 X 12 = 360.
499 - 360 = 130 GAP.




Can you tell us where the 130 billion is coming from and/or how the budgetary GAP will be filled




Travel out of your comfort zone and reflect.
#FriendlyAdvice.

Lagos Generates N20bn IGR Monthly

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/lagos-generates-n20bn-igr-monthly/147329/

Lagos to run on deficit budgeting till 2013

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/05/lagos-to-run-on-deficit-budgeting-till-2013/

babyosisi: And how many aircrafts are using it outside of hajj period
What a waste

suleiman16: ASUU STRIKE | Okonjo-Iweala
Attack Nigeria Mosques.
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"Nigerian Mosques Now 'Camp
Base' for ASUU Activities" ~
Okonjo Iweala
The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala has accused the
Muslims of using their places of
Worship as a 'Camp Base' for
ASUU to carry out their illegal
activities.
In a statement yesterday, the
Coordinating Minister of Economy
and Minister of Finance said, the
Muslim Mosques are now center
for publication and distribition of
pamphlets and flyers with abusive
and inflammatory messages
against her person.
Reacting to the Minister's
accusation, some Muslims has
challenge the Minister to name the
Mosques that are now being use
as 'Camp Base' for ASUU activities.

sunny-bobo:


Haters are tweeting.

babyosisi:

That airport was a sheer waste of money.
The only time it has any semblance of use is during hajj
That is not enough for the fed govt to waste such money
A simple analysis of travelers will tell us most international travelers in nigeria are from the south
But for politics the international airports should have been located in Lagos,Abuja,PH and somewhere in the Enugu / Onitsha area
Put an international airport in this 4 th location,I assure you the traffic to Lagos will reduce by half but Nigeria doesn't work by common sense.
Aboki wanted one and got it.

babyosisi:

I practically spent most of my long vacations in Kano and kaduna and Jos so I know the area well
The population means nothing
How many can get on a plane?
There are about 2 million almajiris in Kano alone
Go around Kano you see them sprawled under every mango tree around a Mallam and by evening they are at every major road junction with bowls in hand
So who exactly is hopping on these planes
The number is negligible
Do you know airfrance and some other airline used to fly from the USA to Kano sometime ago
Go and find out why they stopped
The answer is not Boko haram btw


You are talking about a state whose priority in 2013 is organizing mass weddings for widows and jobless men
Abeg
Why won't they fly their folks abroad?
No be dem dey get the lion share of our oil wealth.